Serious people have fishing nets made of the moon, and even in the dark, they can still catch the starlight of goodness.
First, cultivate four qi
Reading cultivates talent, diligence cultivates luck, generosity nourishes the atmosphere, and indifference cultivates ambition.
Reading to cultivate talent. There is poetry and bookish self-style in the belly, often reading, the temperament naturally changes, and slowly it is like pregnancy. Many times, you think that many of the books you have read have become too much to remember, but they are still potential and can be used wherever they can be used at any time. Although they may not be able to solve your problems immediately, they can increase your insight and make your conversation more moderate; they cannot make you more beautiful, but they can add a touch of bookish atmosphere to you and make your temperament more outstanding.
Read more, you and your friends not only have chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea to talk about, but also qinqi calligraphy and painting poetry hops can be said. Reading can change a person's temperament, and even change a person's bone appearance.
Diligence and luck. Many people think that luck depends on touch, but it is not. Diligence can nourish luck. A person who is diligent and good at preparing for work is naturally easier to grasp whenever the time comes. On the contrary, some lazy people do not do any preparatory work, only know that opportunism, opportunity and luck come, they can only let it slip away, but they complain about themselves, complain about their bad luck.
What is the first opportunity? When a new thing appears, only 5% of people know, hurry up and do it, this is the opportunity, doing it has long been an opportunity. When 50% of people know, you just have to be a consumer. When it's more than 50%, you don't have to look at it. Through this "first opportunity" tip, it is not difficult for us to find that the words hurry and do early all convey an important message, that is, diligence.
Generous and nourish the atmosphere. The higher the level, the more generous people are, and the more atmospheric they are. People of low rank, the realm is narrow, do not know what leniency is, count the salaries of several meters all day, and suffer from gains and losses.
If we condemn the small faults of others, expose the privacy of others, and never forget the old evils of others, we will make our hearts constrained, narrow-minded, and even more cause the hidden crisis when we get along with others, and set up more enemies for ourselves. On the contrary, a person who speaks of forgiveness and treatment of others, open-minded, forgives and loves, his own cultivation is not only perfect, but also a harmony with others. Without enemies, disasters would naturally not fall on him.
In life, if you want to live out the taste and live the way, you can't live without belly. The heart is not wide, the heavens and the earth are small, and the road is getting narrower and narrower. Endure the calm of the wind and waves for a while, and take a step back from the sea and the sky. If a person can be generous and tolerant of insults, he can naturally stay away from right and wrong and be carefree.
Be indifferent to morale. Man is always entangled in all sorts of desires. The human heart is also prone to become a prisoner of desire. The heart is a plain horse, easy to put and difficult to harvest. If people really want to do something, they must be indifferent, they must not indulge their desires, and they should not consume their ambitions in the pursuit of sensory pleasures. Only in a state of indifference and purity can a person's heart transcend the open-mindedness of dusty things.
The spring breeze can accommodate things, and the autumn water article does not stain the dust. Indifferent people must have the spirit of cloud water and temperament, not tired of fame and fortune, not tempted by prosperity, calmly dealing with the world, not being insulted, and indifferent and quiet is the highest realm of self-cultivation and mingzhi. It is only in the realm of indifference and tranquility that we truly understand what we want.
Clinging to ideals, purely in the present, thinking carefully before making a decision, once a decision is made, you must bravely go forward and persevere to the end.
Be an adult in the wind and rain, and be a child in the sun. Knowing the world without being sophisticated, being good at self-deprecation without mocking others, and wishing to be gentle and powerful. Don't worry too much about the present, don't worry too much about the future, when you experience something, the scenery in front of you is different from before. Please live yourself as a ray of light, dashing and hard through this world.
Second, abstain from the four desires
The opening four words of "Jin Ping Mei" are written about the greed and infatuation of the human world. Zhang Ailing said that "Jin Ping Mei" is the opposite of "Dream of the Red Chamber". "Dream of the Red Chamber" is love, and "Jin Ping Mei" is desire. Two sides of the same body, both are extremely clever works.
At the beginning of "Jin Ping Mei", the four desires of life are written. "Wine, sex, wealth, and qi" The four desires of the human world, desire to the extreme, is destruction.
"Alcohol": Wine culture has a long history in China. Whether it is a city or an aristocrat, it is inseparable from wine. "Jin Ping Mei" is a hundred times, a total of 2025 "wine" words appear, 389 drinking scenes, describing 25 kinds of wine. There is also a scene of heavy drinking in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. From the time of Dayu, wine was produced. The courtier Yi Di offered the wine to Dayu, and Dayu was amazed. Then a sentence was thrown out: In the hereafter there will be those who will destroy the country with wine. A permanent ban on alcohol throughout the country was ordered. But people can't resist the temptation of wine. Later, the king of Shang used wine as a pool, drank and feasted day and night, and finally died and set himself on fire on the star-picking platform. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu and Liu Bei were at war, and Zhang Fei lost Xuzhou because he was drunk. Even Liu Bei's family was not brought out, and several years of efforts were destroyed.
Drink a drink, drink a lot and hurt your body. There is nothing wrong with a person who likes to drink, but if you don't do it, sooner or later it will become a scourge.
Lustful: The master said: Food color, sex also. Lust is human nature. It's as normal as dressing and eating. But everything must have a degree, and if you are and absurd, sooner or later you will have to cause trouble to yourself.
Cao Cao recruited Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu surrendered. However, Cao Cao took a fancy to Zhang Xiu's sister-in-law Zou Shi and took possession of it for himself. Have fun with the Zou clan every day and don't think about politics. Zhang Xiu was humiliated and rebelled, And Cao Cao fled in a hurry, and the eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin, and tiger general Dianwei all died to save him. Cao Cao was seriously injured in this battle, and the death of his eldest son was even more painful for his life.
The ancients said: A gentleman is lustful and not obscene. True gentlemen also like beauty, but they do not force themselves to take possession, and they will not indulge themselves. To get rid of lust is to be happy. Just like appreciating the beauty of nature without the slightest possessiveness, this is the best practice.
Greed for "wealth": The ancients said: People die for money, birds die for food. In this world, too many people are obsessed with money, run for money, and eventually pay for a lifetime. But in the end, what can you take away?
So many rich merchants and tycoons in Shanxi have built so many deep mansion compounds, but now the people who take the keys are irrelevant people. Tourists come and go, and in the courtyard, they can faintly see the prosperity of the day, but they will never see their owners again.
Money is the most powerful thing in the world, and it is also the most vain thing. Money is constantly flowing, and when you come here today, you may come there tomorrow. Those who have no money in their hands stare anxiously at others; those who have money in their hands guard themselves anxiously; those who are poor squeeze upwards, and those who are rich climb upwards. There is not a single one who is not anxious. Anxiety brings greed, greed brings disaster, and if a person cannot restrain his inner greed, sooner or later he will cause trouble.
The ancients said: What is the people's rudeness, and what is the righteousness of the people, and the wealth is not righteous and does not take." If a person abandons morality and seeks money, he will not only have a disturbed conscience, but will also be punished by the Heavenly Dao. Thick to carry. Only with a deep moral character can it carry the wealth of the body. It is better to seek wealth than to accumulate goodness, and the more good deeds accumulated, the more life will naturally be smooth.
Qi: In the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, it is said that hundreds of diseases are born in Qiye. "Qi" is emotion. A person who is in great pain and loses his temper will cause physical damage. Modern medicine has also proved that a person who loses his temper once is no less damaging to the body than an acute hepatitis. Being brave and fighting with people will also cause irreparable trouble to yourself.
Napoleon said that those who can control their emotions are greater than taking a city. Temper tantrums are instinctive, and controlling temper is cultivation. Don't be impulsive and angry, otherwise you can only regret your life.
Breathe softly, laugh shallowly. Life is plain, not sad, not happy, not alarmed, and so on! Someone once wrote a poem "Wine-colored Wealth": Wine-colored wealth and wealth are four walls, everyone is hiding in them, if anyone can jump over, not a god will live long. There are thousands of things in the world, but desire is the most difficult to fill. Alcohol is a intestinal medicine, moderation is enjoyment, excessive is uncomfortable. Color is a bone scraper, beauty is happiness, and addiction is a burden. Wealth is a seedling of trouble, small earnings are wealth, and great greed is a burden. Gas is a smokeless cannon, stingy is angry, and the atmosphere is easy to lose gas.
The I Ching says: Be content with moderation, be prosperous, be content with moderation, and be auspicious. Only when the heavens and the earth have moderation can the four seasons rotate normally; only when the country has moderation can the country and the people be safe; and only when individuals understand moderation can they go smoothly. Alcoholism, lust, greed for money, and arrogance require the four precepts of life. Only by understanding moderation and moderation can life be disaster-free and difficult, and can we grow old in peace.
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